Health/Education News

Thulitha Abayawardana

Thulitha is an IT professional from Auckland, New Zealand. He is enthusiastic about wildlife and nature. In his spare time he takes interest in volunteering to write online articles on wildlife and environmental conservation.

Sri Lanka being a tropical island located in the Indian Ocean, has been home to a varied number of animals and plants for millions of years. In fact Sri Lanka is a bio-diversity hotspot. But, over the past 200 years or so, deforestation has become a critical threat to the island’s bio-diversity. Every year Sri Lanka is losing 3500 hectares of its forest cover due to logging, agriculture, colonisation and illegal exploitation.

Conservation News

A two year rural development and joint conservation pilot scheme, in Camdeboo, Mountain Zebra and the West Coast National Park, South Africa, have seen major potential benefits for rural communities as well as continued gains for conservation.